ಅರ್ಥ : The largest city and former capital of Turkey. Rebuilt on the site of ancient Byzantium by Constantine I in the fourth century. Renamed Constantinople by Constantine who made it the capital of the Byzantine Empire. Now the seat of the Eastern Orthodox Church.
ಅರ್ಥ : The council in 869 that condemned Photius who had become the patriarch of Constantinople without approval from the Vatican, thereby precipitating the schism between the eastern and western churches.
ಸಮಾನಾರ್ಥಕ : fourth council of constantinople
ಅರ್ಥ : The sixth ecumenical council in 680-681 which condemned Monothelitism by defining two wills in Christ, divine and human.
ಸಮಾನಾರ್ಥಕ : third council of constantinople
ಅರ್ಥ : The fifth ecumenical council in 553 which held Origen's writings to be heretic.
ಸಮಾನಾರ್ಥಕ : second council of constantinople
ಅರ್ಥ : The second ecumenical council in 381 which added wording about the Holy Spirit to the Nicene Creed.
ಸಮಾನಾರ್ಥಕ : first council of constantinople